Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1878 — J. Mad. Wells, on `the War-Path. [ARTICLE]

J. Mad. Wells, on `the War-Path.

J. Madison Wells, President of th Louisiana Returning Board, writes to the Philadelphia Times, giving notice of his intention to bring snit for defamation against it on the ground that it has charged him wPh defalcation and receivieg stolen mules. His note reads: New Obleans, March 29, 1878. To the Editor of the Philadelphia Times Newspaper, Philadelphia, Pa : Before instituting suit against you for defa’nation, I send my reply to your scurrilous article, as it fully fits your case. J. Madison Wells. Accompanying this letter is the following card : New Oble »nh, Feb. 21, 1878. To the Public: The reports going the rounds of the newspapers of my being a defaulter, and an accomplice in a disreputable mob transaction, comes from the fruitful imagination of the brains of the progeny of a harlot, and it would seem that those engag.-d in their reproduction are but worthy scions matured in a similar bed of Infamy.

J. MADISON WELLS.

The publication to ■which Wells referred was a satirical editorial in defense of the theory that Wells is insane.